Last night I dreamed that I was (the late) Britanny Murphy's personal assistant. First of all - I don't know why.
But in my dream I was stuck with the dilemma of correctly fulfilling my employer's requests - a soft boiled egg - but how soft is soft? Or a glass of chocolate milk - how chocolaty does one like it? In my dream every request was fraught with questions of proportion or strength or other criteria. Suddenly things I was confident with were now put into question.
In the end, my employer lost respect for me because I was so busy taking care of her, that I didn't take care of myself.
Okay, lesson learned - the one in the dream and the one behind the dream, since I'm sure a dream interpreter would point out the obvious - that I need to take care of myself first.
How much weight can you put on a dream's meaning? And are there other lessons to be learned?
I've been able to wake up and then go back to sleep to continue my dream, but I have not been a lucid dreamer. Can you force your dream to come out the way you want it to?
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Sometimes I sure can. Especially if I don't like the way a story is turning out, I can rewind and change it's course. And I'm conscious that I'm doing it at the time. Weird.
Sleep and dreaming is fascinating to me and if a show comes on TV about it, I am glued to the set. I once heard a psychologist (or whatever) describe a technique to help understand a dream. Pretend you are talking to a being from another planet who has just landed here and knows absolutely nothing about this world....even the simplest thing. Describe every little detail. For instance, you dreamed that you were walking in a dark underground parking garage. Explain what "dark" is, explain what a parking garage is. Like that. I've tried it and it's kind of cool. Sometimes obvious isn't so obvious anymore.
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